Trash Tree Makeover: Do This to Reap Good Fruit from GARBAGE Trees!

A year ago we grafted over some invasive trees - today, you'll see results!
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When you have Bradford pear trees, why not graft useful fruiting pears onto them? Flowering pears can be used as root stock for good pears! Today you'll see our bark grafting results!
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[@benmoffitt7524]

Pretty sure Dante mentioned Bradford Pears in The Inferno. Glad to hear there’s a way to redeem them.

[@nancywest1926]

😂

[@davidthegood]

They are in the circle outside of cogongrass.

[@tanyawales5445]

You can also graft apple scions onto pear or quince rootstock.

[@314Adventurer]

Cumfry and honey suckle is in there some where 😅😅

[@Joe-Skier]

​@@davidthegoodHey David, another awesome video. I live in Montana and choke cherries grow wild all over the place. I'm wondering if I can graft other types of cherries to the chokecherry?

[@user-gk2ut8mc5e]

This is the best time of the year to take cuttings of woody plants to start new stock. I use sand as my grow medium and once I see roots in the clear nursery pot, it's time to plant them in soil. I am currently doing some elderberry to increase my orchard. HalleluYAH!! YAHUAH has blessed us with so much and I am so grateful 💕💕💕 to him and thankful for brothers like you!! Shalom

[@alaskannomad]

Oh my, I laughed so hard at your rants!! Thank you so much for letting me know the tree blooming in my yard right now in TN. I will be using it as root stock! My chickens would not even eat the fruit last year, and they eat everything, lol 😂 Great info!!

[@heroofguitar25]

Wish we could get an update on the other pear you grafted a ton of scions onto. Edit: WAIT THIS IS IT!!!! I THOUGHT YOU MOVED!!! Awesome

[@ragheadand420roll]

Darn that cow for ruining those grafts 😂 ✌🏻

[@sathancat]

This video was sponsored by that rooster in the background that has something to tell you 😅

[@user-mi4du9rd1j]

We have several Bradford pear stumps that send up a wealth of shoots every year. Our rabbits eat them happily. I'll be practicing grafting on them this year as well.

[@lornabaker4039]

Bark grafts have been the most successful for me out of all the grafting methods I have tried. Pears, peaches, apples, nectarines etc.

[@GoodTimesHomestead]

Ya David. Quit gaslighting us 😂

[@Roescoe]

He can't keep getting away with it. Never showing us anything!

[@stephenluna7932]

The jokes at the end 😂😂😂😂😂

[@robclower9606]

I like to use the wood in my smoker. It actually has a really nice aroma to it and the BTU is fairly high so good for firewood also.

[@davidthegood]

Awesome. We cut planks from a big tree that blew over and the wood was beatiful and figured. Have not tried it in the smoker, but I wondered.

[@robclower9606]

@@davidthegood It's a pain to split but those 1-2 inch thick limbs are perfect

[@jesshorn257]

I knew it.... you have the 50 bedroom/20 bathroom youtube mansion :). Thanks for sharing tips

[@davidthegood]

Yes. And we live on the beach, and just go to this property to film.

[@sansomspressurecleaningpoo9519]

You guys are too funny. God bless you all. Hope to see you soon.

[@sampleonlinecontent2071]

From a sheer vigor standpoint, Bradford pears are amazing. Seems like epic root stock material.

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

They aren't resistant to fire blight though. I can show you Bradford pear trees all around where I live that look pretty pitiful from fire blight.

[@qualqui]

This is AWESOME! Congratulations David on the successful grafting of yummy pears on the Bradford Pear! 🤣🤣🤣@the ending!😉

[@managementcreios]

Watch to the end!

[@Proud_zionist3]

Amazing idea ,turning a problem into opportunity ❤

[@gelwood99]

Thank you, David, for the follow-up on this. I have a very old pear tree that has hard pears but makes the best pear preserves, I have no clue what it is but I can do this to bring that tree to my property now! Wonderful! 😂🤣, scruges of the South!!!

[@keralee]

It might be a Kieffer pear? They are old type, very hard but do soften up off the tree if stored cold for a while. Good canning pear.

[@rhinothumping]

Blooms in early March…. 😂 we still have snow on the ground and maple sap is running in our part of the country. I’m looking forward to grafting some fruit trees this spring though.

[@EmpoweredWithPiper]

Our Gorilla Gardening Guru strikes again!!!! Seriously David, this is BRILLIANT!!! I cringe this time of year at all the Bradford Pear in bloom here in Middle TN… What a brilliant idea to use their strength against them, while also allowing them to feed the community. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us, Sensei David!!

[@Mindy56743]

We have an abundance of Bradford pear trees and they are blooming and I was going to have my son in law cut them down!

[@davidthegood]

The lumber is lovely too

[@Mindy56743]

Mine aren’t big enough for lumber. Wood chips yeah but I don’t have a chipper

[@davidthegood]

Firewood!@@Mindy56743

[@Mindy56743]

@@davidthegood definitely!

[@yankeegonesouth4973]

I've grafted onto this before and am doing it again. Stay awesome, David!

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

Such an exciting time of year. I keep beating myself up for not having done anything yet this year but at least I will do better than last year which was basically just testing the germination rate of 10+ yr old seeds from my garage. . . XD One seed grew.

[@joyces.9021]

Love your plant propagation book! Highly recommend.👌

[@SD-cz8og]

Ok I'm calm 😂, those grafts are looking amazing

[@terencechandler845]

Thaks for enlightening people to making thriving fruit trees with disease tolerant foot stocks. ❤

[@seedsower3857]

Oh, thanks for the laughs, it's good for the heart!

[@TonyOlivieri-hu2iv]

David, thank you for all of your time and effort!!!

[@DeanFamilyAcres]

Appreciate the recap! Was asking Randall about these the other day. Grafted our last Callery this week. Looking forward to the results. We call the blessing of the South fire ants. 😂

[@SpringdaleHomesteadNWFL]

Thanks so much! We went to Keepers of the Old ways last year. Grafted 2 trees in a class and they are doing great!

[@B.V.Luminous]

Where the hell have you been all my life good sir?!? This is good content, subscribed.

[@davidthegood]

Welcome

[@janebadon3988]

‘So glad to see how the grafts are doing-‘been wondering.

[@tonyalewis9053]

Banjo players!? You’ve crossed a line! 😂 🪕 🤷‍♀️

[@TRUTHRULES777]

I have my second Fig from an Italian friend and Pear Olive and plum. Many Berries odd new ones. Doing well. Love gardening and being in the Sunshine. Blue Skies 🌞 Puyallup WA. Enjoy the Channel.

[@TRUTHRULES777]

A couple years ago I ordered some Italian Cyprus miniature ones they’re not so gigantic. I have several of them in my yard and they are doing great. You know you have to make the best of where you’re at and just do what you want but I love where I live is when it’s super hot and people come over sometime friends family, it’s super hot out in the front but we walk to the backyard and it’s just nice and cool maybe hot out but just way cooler. The older I get I don’t like the heat I was young we would go to the lakes and just bake..I can’t really deal with that, but when it is warmer, I do stay out. I love to be outside night in the Pacific Northwest. It’s beautiful. I love when you can walk from inside the outside and there’s no temperature difference. But we’re not super cold here. Sometimes a little bit. Most of my family is all in California are Midwest, East Coast and mostly in Canada. My mom and me used to go up there all the time we have the most beautiful state and most people don’t know over in eastern Washington we have canyons and the Palouse is the most beautiful place. I think I’ve ever been to, and I’ve traveled to Italy a few times, Europe China Taiwan up and down the West Coast I’ve been to the East Coast Loved Atlanta. Northern Florida not much. China. I’ll tell you the the Palouse in Wa state in June is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen I couldn’t even take pictures I said I have to come back it’s in the eastern part of our state it’s and it goes into a little bit of Idaho but mostly Washington state it is the most gorgeous thing. I would say June 15 depends on that Weather it’s pink and purple and yellow and green and beautiful small hills. A lot of people don’t know about it. Tuscany of Eastern WA. State. Amazing.

[@davidthegood]

Sounds beautiful

[@Michael-fk1lq]

The simple merger between gardening and prepping in your channel's title is what got me. Since i started I've looked at all my gardening as "survival gardening." Now i see it for the clever marketing scheme that it is. I'll always be composting everything and have learned a lot from this channel but i only watch 20 percent of the content now, prefering to share my quick methods with smaller channels. It turns out that the clickbattyness amounts to an extra dose of inspiration that is best carried into one's own garden. Bc of you, i know that cigarette butts can be composted, though it's not something to mention on this channel.

[@Temerity]

I tried grafting my pear this year as well and I am super excited on the outcome

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

I have two successful grafts this year. I grafted a Golden Dorset on a Anna apple, as they pollinate one another.

[@UsDiYoNa]

I appreciate that intro 👏🏽

[@emaglott]

Awesome exploitation of the Bradford pear!

[@Antreus]

I have all your books

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@almostoily7541]

I'm waiting on the corn Landrace update. I feel like I need to know if I missed it. Lol Our cows ate and killed our Scuppernongs. How can Mrs. Rachel watch your scurges of the south monologue without cracking up? Y'all are so fun

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

That's true, if he makes any progress with the corn I will be the first to buy it.

[@almostoily7541]

@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim I already have the cucumber and watermelon landraces his family has. Excited to try them out 😀

[@k.p.1139]

I got the first stinking skeeter bite this morning. I hate those things! 😏😏😂

[@wiseguy4457]

I just went to the Marion county master gardeners thing yesterday and scrubland was there and I got a Rachel Goodman mulberry. I’ve been a fan of yours since middle school I think when you inspired me to get into food forests and now I’m three years on my own property in the scrub. I’m going to try to make it to the thing in April.

[@SouthFloridaSunshine]

Not the gator & mosquito alliances, 😂 you going to scare the tourists away. It’s okay we still have not told them the American Salt Water Croc is making a come back near our beautiful beaches. Missed the premiere, watched the replay, so keep cows away from grafts into feral trees got it.

[@BigBudde]

THANK YOU for this update video!!

[@stephaniemoore-fuller9082]

... feral Baptists... Ha! this was my favorite!

[@joshaklese4969]

I love that shirt. I am going to wear Hawaiian shirts this year.

[@ss-kz9ee]

Good to see new videos I think I'm running out of your videos. Great idea. I can't grow pears, peaches etc. To hot here.

[@davidthegood]

You might need some shade. Some stuff just dies on us here in the summer unless we shade it.

[@breaking_bear]

Outstanding video as always brother! Hahahahahahah! "Feral baptists!" Scourges of the South is my new favorite comedic reference. That'd make a great name for a outlaw country band right there. "Scourges of the South". "SOTS" for short.

[@alysoffoxdale]

Oh, that acronym is utterly _priceless_ for the dry counties!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@mjf719]

That last bit sounds like it needs to be a song...

[@nancyfahey7518]

Got the book.👍

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

Just last week we were in the South, visiting family. Both of us saw them and said, "NO, not Bradford Pear down here!" It was all over along I57. Sad. Just like the awful stands of it up here in the North. City we used to live in used BP as parkway trees in front of houses on neighborhood streets.

[@Morganistas]

Thanks to yours and Randall's inspiration here and at Scrubfest, I bought the scion wood, cut back our non-productive pear and grafted, just like you showed us. Even my husband was excited to see some tiny signs of life from the scion wood today. Thank you - maybe next year we'll have pears! This year, I resorted to asking on Nextdoor for someone willing to have me cross pollinate my other pear tree with theirs by hand - looks like it worked! Florida Food Forest, here we come!

[@davidthegood]

That is fantastic.

[@chrissybilleiter]

I bought the book a couple weeks ago and have already started some free plant projects! Thank you for putting that together. I know it will be an invaluable resource.

[@nedweeks6964]

Thank you for identifying the weird flowering pear thing in my front yard!

[@stephenluna7932]

I have that book, it’s great. Love your content.

[@johnliberty3647]

I have bitter high bush blueberries on my property. Worth eating if you find them in the woods but not a good tasting berry. I was going to graft better blueberries but winter was so short and I was so busy that I missed my grafting window. I also have a red (black when ripe) low bush blueberry. I dug one up and gave it to Sam. He is still trying to find out the correct name for it. When I put in my house and driveway as well as my root crop bed I potted up more of those red blueberries. If you want any I can be sure to have some sent your way via Sam or I can drive to Atmore/Pensacola and go to one of the flea markets you sell at in the future.

[@davidthegood]

I would totally give those a try.

[@davidthegood]

We're in Pensacola on Saturdays now.

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

That's really cool! I sometimes to go Pensacola on a Saturday!

[@johnliberty3647]

After fighting with chat gpt that told me there are no native blueberries in Florida I got the demonic ai to tell me the name of this blueberry Vaccinium myrsinites also known as the shiny blueberry . I had been trying to use chat gpt to tell me this for months. I should be texting Sam the name but it’s 2:30ish am and not a good time for texting but since I will likely fall asleep soon and will forget I found the name it seemed like a good idea to post it somewhere online. I checked Wikipedia to see if they had a picture of the plant for some verification and I confirmed this is the plant I found. Maybe I get too excited over these things.

[@cheerfulmouse]

I was hoping for a song at the end... But atl do sonny 😂

[@takeitslowhomestead5218]

I learned a lot from your book, FREE PLANTS FOR EVERYONE, and am still learning from it! Thank you! 🌱🌳

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@mwnemo]

Just did it on a citrus tree with some greening resistant mandarins.

[@lostpony4885]

Hey i have that. Moved it to the easement for ornamental use.

[@ktz-fk9qj]

I really enjoy your sense of humor! Thank u brother

[@maroosk]

Awesome

[@BB_outdoors]

Awesome 😊

[@LenardMountainHomestead]

Thank you for posting. Love this video.. New to your channel!! Very informative!

[@PraxisPrepper]

Cool idea.

[@hq7108]

Thank you

[@jetjaguar5200]

You're David the Good.

[@babetteisinthegarden6920]

TYFS

[@Blynn-md4dx]

Hey! We live in a dry county!! Hahahahhahsh

[@markfalgoust6910]

When u and family gonna have another plant/ seed sale? I wanna make the drive and buy whatever y'all are selling

[@runningwarrior5468]

😂😂😂ROFL !! FERAL BAPTISTS!!!!😂😂😂😂 #bandnames

[@t3dwards13]

"Sibling marriage."Hahaha

[@user-yt6xj1xi5z]

Freesteading has been down all day

[@elbajoloco]

Are you ready to start a folk band? Think The Dillards / Darlings :)

[@GrandmomZoo]

Grafted my bradford pear like you waiting for results! Your books are awesome. Fig prop too. ❤

[@ksmith3922]

How do you prevent the thorns that the Bradford pears are notorious for producing? This is an interesting idea for redeeming those pesky trees.

[@awc0000]

As a resident of the "Nursery Capital of the World", I feel the need to apologize to the rest of the US, and perhaps the entire world, for the number of Bradford pears we have grown and distributed over the years. On a more positive note, thanks to your previous pear grafting video, I have begun to graft edible pears onto some of the garbage trees on my property.

[@ausfoodgarden]

I'm gonna try grafting a Tahitian lime, Mandarin, and Lemonade lemon onto a sad Lisbon lemon I've been growing in a pot. It's in the ground now and I expect it to go gangbusters. Hey, What's the worst that can happen? I end up with lemons.

[@ragheadand420roll]

David are they planting rice near you ? Sounds like an air tractor Or a king air in the area ✌🏻

[@davidthegood]

We have crop planes around here.

[@joshua511]

I have a callery pear on the fence line, maybe 6 1/2 feet tall, just started to flower. I've never grafted before. Should I order some pear scion right now and hack the tree up and give it a shot or can it be done closer to fall?

[@thebigshmoog]

I can smell this video...

[@paul.1337]

@2:30 I planted hundreds of Bradford pears after seeing that video last year, so I hope this works and not just on the Internet! I just did my first grafts. I bench grafted two white peaches, a Toka plum, and an apricot. Three of the four are showing signs of growth after a little over a week, so I'm hopeful that they'll take. I have a couple Apple and pear rootstocks coming in a week or two to try doing a couple of those.

[@emaglott]

Feral sibling marriage #bandnames

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

What can I graft a sour cherry on? I have wild cherry, will that work? Are you going to go to TN anytime?

[@ArtistCreek]

If you dont keep them under conteol and they get to be 20 or 30 yrs old they will just RANDOMLY start dropping limbs. Like big, can dent your car hood (dont ask how i know) . Keep them under conteol for your own good.

[@CrystalShaman]

Hi David...great video!...I saw you before on Ice Age Farmer channel. Where can Ice Age Farmer be seen now??...Please do you know? Ty...🙏✨

[@davidthegood]

I do not know

[@hsnwfl7766]

Rats eat those Callery Bradford Pears. Found a nest with the pears when the rats ate my wiring harness.

[@Antreus]

🎉

[@lyonna7499]

Do I get rid of the less than ten year old black walnut trees that are going to shade out other things in the garden?

[@ktz-fk9qj]

So I have a couple sad old apple trees, they're mostly dead. Can I cut it back and graft on to it?

[@davidthegood]

Yes. But they might just need a pruning to reinvigorate them.

[@zmblion]

My mom has 2 that where small in her yard when she first bought her house now they are all over her 9 acres and everywhere else it's nuts

[@davidthegood]

They really spread. Somehow, the original type has mutated.

[@zmblion]

@@davidthegood the state of Missouri has been wanting us to cut them down and they will give us a native tree but she isn't sold on that. They want everyone to get rid of them and seeing how fast they spread I agree. They have got to be great root stock tho

[@zmblion]

@@davidthegood I thought they were sterile? At least at first. Do they still need another apple or pear to pollinate or are they self seeding at this point?

[@davidthegood]

I think a variant got out, and now they seed everywhere@@zmblion

[@dandelion_acres_academy]

@davidthegood David, do I have to cut down the whole tree when grafting onto it? Right now ours is the only pollinator for our Asian pear and I’m not completely ready to lose it. Could I graft it in stages/sections?

[@davidthegood]

Yes, you can just graft one branch if you like.

[@nathanaelstunt7317]

Perry. Jelly.

[@davidthegood]

I dunno - the flavor is really astringent. Think it would cook out? Plus, the amount you'd have to gather...

[@nathanaelstunt7317]

@@davidthegood Perhaps not jelly then. But if they're "spitters" - like true cider apples are tanic and make you want to spit them out - then they could work well for a genuine perry. Hard to come by, especially if they don't fruit every year.

[@JohnMarsing]

I'm wondering if you can do that with mesquite trees. If I grafted a cultivar that produces good sweet pods can I put that on one that doesn't?

[@davidthegood]

I'm not sure, but you could try.

[@jessbent6204]

Hi David just wanted to ask you about white mold in the swamp water. Sorry unrelated but was hoping you could come firm if that is normal. Thanks bro.

[@davidthegood]

It's normal

[@gasubtropics]

4:37 offtop... but is that a loblolly or a longleaf in the background?

[@davidthegood]

Probably longleaf - I have to go look now!

[@gasubtropics]

@@davidthegood come back and let me know!!!! im curious

[@sampedro9316]

Now to just hire an arborist to cut mine down.

[@ibrewhaha]

I've heard that South Carolina banned them and have a deadline for removing pre-existing ones. Easier to get rid of drugs probably. 😢

[@cheerfulmouse]

No mention of how they smell like rotting fish guts!!